For $77,000 you can buy a bear robot to carry you around

Good newsworthiness first : our civilization is rapidly approaching the watershed moment in which we will all ride around on ursine mecha .

Riken ’s RIBA - IIelderly - person - lift bearbotis the first step towards tooling around in a titanium grizzly that has Tomahawk missiles for molars . The bad news program ? The RIBA - II costs $ 77 K and wo n’t be available commercially until 2015 .

Yes , you ’ll have to hold back another 3 year before bond a scimitar to its forehead to the calming tonicity of misstep - hop . And that ’s even if this equipment bring in it to market — older folks are n’t necessarily loving robot helpers .